Common Grounds

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• Is Inflation Alive?

  
  March 04, 2021 19:28

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/bigpicture/is-inflation-alive?utm_source=Project%20Syndicate%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=3babda6500-covid_newsletter_03_04_2021&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-3babda6500-93791313&mc_cid=3babda6500&mc_eid=284f1f0e24

   

  Published March 3, 2021

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• Why Israel fears the ICC war crimes investigation

  
  March 04, 2021 20:02

  Source: Guardian

  https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/mar/03/israeli-officials-start-to-feel-the-impact-of-icc-investigation

   

  By Peter Beaumont

  Published March 3, 2021

   

  Analysis: officials recognise there is a real risk of prosecution over the deadly 2014 conflict

   

  Report: ICC opens investigation into war crimes in Palestinian territories

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• Exultant Crowds Gather for Pope's Erbil Mass, Despite Coronavirus Concerns

  
  March 08, 2021 22:05

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iraq/exultant-crowds-gather-for-pope-s-erbil-mass-despite-coronavirus-concerns-1.9598261?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=4b140a06ac

   

  Reuters

  Published March 7, 2021

   

  The Mass in the autonomous Kurdish region is the pope's first engagement in his visit to Iraq, and local Christians have been eagerly awaiting it: 'We hope that he brings peace to Iraq and social harmony and an end to wars'

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• Opinion | ‘Dead Goyim Leg’: NBC's 'Antisemitic' TV Clip Is More Accurate Than We’d Like to Admit

  
  March 08, 2021 21:57

  Source Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-dead-goyim-leg-antisemitic-tv-clip-more-accurate-than-we-d-like-to-admit-1.9597514?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=4b140a06ac

   

  By Robby Berman

  Published March 3, 2012

   

  The outrage over the portrayal of an ultra-Orthodox family refusing a transplant from a non-Jew is hollow when so many Orthodox Jews hold racist attitudes towards gentiles and refuse to donate organs to them

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• EVANGELICAL LEADERS ON CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM

  
  March 01, 2021 12:53

  Source: Ron Sider Blog

  https://ronsiderblog.substack.com/

   

  By Ron Sider

  Published February 25, 2021

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• Remember the Marshall Plan … Debating Biden’s Stimulus Plan

  
  February 26, 2021 12:55

  By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

   

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• Was Jesus a Zionist? (continued)

  
  February 19, 2021 11:16

  Source: www.christianzionism.org

  https://www.christianzionism.org/en/was-jesus-zionist

   

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• Biden Goes Big

  
  February 18, 2021 13:45

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-right-to-launch-massive-rescue-plan-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2021-02?utm_source=Project+Syndicate+Newsletter&utm_campaign=521e775455-sunday_newsletter_02_07_2021&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-521e775455-93791313&mc_cid=521e775455&mc_eid=284f1f0e24

   

  By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ

  Published February 1, 2021

   

  The US president's proposed $1.9 trillion recovery package will provide enormous stimulus to the economy. The economic growth that results will generate substantial tax revenues, not just for the federal government but also for the states and municipalities that are now starved of the funds they need to provide essential services.

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• Opinion | The World May Have Given Up on Two States, but It Still Cares About the Occupation

  
  November 09, 2021 16:09

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-world-may-have-given-up-on-two-states-but-it-still-cares-about-the-occupation-1.10347756

   

  By Mickey Gitzin

  Published November 2, 2021

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• Opinion | A Dirty but Effective Way to Start Ending the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

  
  February 22, 2021 14:08

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-a-dirty-but-effective-way-to-start-ending-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-1.9550846?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=38628aeb2c&lts=1613747321381

   

  By Anshel Pfeffer

  Published February 18, 2021

   

  Trump’s deal is dead, Biden is busy, the far right dreams of annexation and the far left of BDS, the peace process industry is engrossed in its fantasies. But there’s a practical, unglamorous way to make life better for two million Israelis and Palestinians

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